Ill-Matched Marriage
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The Ill-Matched Marriage is an oil painting by a follower of the early Netherlandish master Quentin Matsys, usually dated between 1525 and 1530. The panel, probably inspired by an original lost drawin
Quentin Metsys O Casamento Desigual
Ill-Matched Lovers, oil on panel, c. 1520–1525, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sebastian Brant
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Sebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff.
Ill-Matched Marriage
…the necklace spread on the table inside a box. The "grotesque marriage" is also present in the satirical literature, as in the poem Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant (1494), which in its 52nd chapter tackles the "marriage-for-money" theme. The subject is treated by Erasmus of Rotterdam in his The Praise of Folly…
Woodcut from Das Narrenschiff